tomato soup from campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. >>> every time in this campaign that mitt romney had his back up against the wall and had adebate, he came out and had a game-changing debate. on sunday i came out sxsd what i believed, which was i have seen this guy do it before, and i think he'll do it again. he did last night. >> chris christie gives himself a pat on the back on "morning joe" after predicts on "meet the press" that the debate would be a game changer for governor romney. joining me is patrick gaspar, the executive director of the democratic national committee. thank you for your time. what is your impression of the debate? how would you score president obama since the heat is on him today? >> there's a basic threshold that you meet when you run for president or you're a president. people expect you to be honest and candid with them. the president was more than honest. he was transparent about his plans and gave context for where we came from and how we dug out a deep hole and pointed t